We're finishing up our series on the Kingdom of God.

If you haven't listened to part 1 and 2, I'd recommend that you go back and do that.

In the last episode, we looked at how the theme of the Kingdom of God begins on page

1 of the Bible.

Genesis chapter 1, God creates humans in His image, which means we are to represent His

reign on earth.

That's how the story begins.

All of the potential humans have this amazingly elevated, royal, sacred task of embodying

God's rule.

We talked about how humans create their own alternative kingdom, which culminates

in the city of Babylon and then also is typified in Pharaoh's Egypt.

So then the story of the Bible becomes the story of the clash of kingdoms of God constantly

trying to invade our kingdom and save us from ourselves and us constantly wanting to

push God out of the equation.

We talk about God's response to this alternate kingdom.

Well, he's going to choose a family of Abraham and liberate them from the world, the age

of sin and death, from the kingdom, which in the story takes the form of the Exodus.

And he liberates his people out of that oppressive evil into a new freedom and then he invites

them to live under his reign.

We looked at how ancient Israel was unable to live up to the task of being the image of

God to reign on God's behalf over earth, but that Jesus, a new prophet on the scene, talks

about the kingdom coming in a fresh way.

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